Proverbs 21:8

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

The way of him that is laden with guilt is exceeding crooked; But as for the pure, his work is right.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הֲפַכְפַּ֬ךְ דֶּ֣רֶךְ אִ֣ישׁ וָזָ֑ר וְ֝זַ֗ךְ יָשָׁ֥ר פָּעֳלֽוֹ

Transliteration

hăp̄aḵpaḵ dereḵ ʾîš and-zār and-zaḵ yāšār poʿŏlô

Grammar Details

• *hăp̄aḵpaḵ*: adjective masculine singular - twisted/crooked
• *dereḵ*: construct singular noun - way of
• *ʾîš*: singular noun - man
• *zār*: adjective masculine singular - strange/foreign
• *zaḵ*: adjective masculine singular - pure/clean
• *yāšār*: adjective masculine singular - straight/right
• *poʿŏlô*: noun + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his work

Word Meanings

• *hăp̄aḵpaḵ*: twisted/crooked/perverse/tortuous
• *dereḵ*: way/path/road/conduct
• *ʾîš*: man/person
• *zār*: strange/foreign/guilty/loathsome
• *zaḵ*: pure/clean/innocent
• *yāšār*: straight/upright/right
• *poʿŏlô*: his work/deed/action

Referenced Verses

• Prov 2:15 : 15 Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their paths:
• Prov 15:26 : 26 Evil devices are an abomination to Jehovah; But pleasant words [are] pure.
• Prov 30:12 : 12 There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, And [yet] are not washed from their filthiness.
• Eccl 7:29 : 29 Behold, this only have I found: that God made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
• Eccl 9:3 : 3 This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that [they go] to the dead.
• Dan 12:10 : 10 Many shall purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand; but they that are wise shall understand.
• Matt 5:8 : 8 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
• Matt 12:33 : 33 Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by its fruit.
• Acts 15:9 : 9 and he made no distinction between {G5037} us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.
• 1 Cor 3:3 : 3 for ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you jealousy and strife, are ye not carnal, and do ye not walk after the manner of men?
• Eph 2:2-3 : 2 wherein {G1722} ye once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, of the spirit that now worketh in the sons of disobedience; 3 among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest: —
• Titus 1:15 : 15 To the pure all things are pure: but to them that are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.
• Titus 2:14 : 14 who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a people for his own possession, zealous of good works.
• Titus 3:3 : 3 For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.
• Titus 3:5 : 5 not by works [done] in righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,
• 1 Pet 1:22-23 : 22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from the {G2513} heart fervently: 23 having been begotten again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which liveth and abideth.
• 1 John 2:29 : 29 If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one also that doeth righteousness is begotten of him.
• 1 John 3:3 : 3 And every one that hath this hope [set] on him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
• Gen 6:5-6 : 5 And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 And it repented Jehovah that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
• Gen 6:12 : 12 And God saw the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.
• Job 15:14-16 : 14 What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? 15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones; Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight: 16 How much less one that is abominable and corrupt, A man that drinketh iniquity like water!
• Ps 14:2-3 : 2 Jehovah looked down from heaven upon the children of men, To see if there were any that did understand, That did seek after God. 3 They are all gone aside; They are together become filthy; There is none that doeth good, no, not one.